Pressure on under-par Ghana
Posted by Samuel Ampah on 7:39 pm at 7:39 pmThe African Nations Cup reaches a defining point for Ghana when the hosts face Morocco in Accra on Monday as fans demand more from them. Despite gaining maximum points on their way to topping group A, Claude Le Roy’s team have been far from impressive thus far and will need to put in a good [...]
Read the rest of this story »Egypt’s victory was not without a fight - Motaleb
Posted by GNA on 7:18 pm at 7:18 pmThe MTN Man of the Match in the Egypt-Sudan “Group C” match, Egyptian Hosney Abdel Motaleb has said that his team’s victory was not without a fight.
Motaleb said Sudan posed a threat at the onset, as they wanted to win, throwing a lot of men upfront in their match at the ongoing Ghana 2008 soccer [...]
“My problem is cohesion”, Coach Pfister
Posted by GNA on 7:17 pm at 7:17 pm The Cameroonian national coach, Otto Pfister says his problem with the team participating in the ongoing Ghana 2008 Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Kumasi is cohesion.
He said he had not been with the team for long like Coach Claude Le Roy of Ghana’s Black Stars and the Southern African Coach, Carlos Alberto Parreira.
Addressing [...]
Angola 3 - Senegal 1
Posted by Samuel Ampah on 5:52 pm at 5:52 pmSenegal are up by a goal courtesy hadji Diof in the 23rd minute after a goal mouth melee when the goal keeper failed to manage his post. After 45minutes, dominated by the Angolans, there are clear indications that Group D results will change after all the group matches. stay tuned
Read the rest of this story »African Nations Cup review
Posted by Samuel Ampah on 4:32 pm at 4:32 pmBarcelona striker Samuel Eto’o equalled the African Nations Cup scoring record with his 14th in finals as Cameroon defeated Zambia 5-1 in the Baba Yara Stadium.
Eto’o matched the record of Ivory Coast’s Laurent Pokou as former Middlesbrough forward Joseph Desire Job netted twice.
Egypt’s Abou Traika, celebrates after scoring his second goal
Cameroon took the [...]
Morocco out to spoil Ghana’s party
Posted by Samuel Ampah on 4:15 pm at 4:15 pmGhana need only to draw their last Group A game on Monday against Morocco to keep alive their dream of winning the African Nations Cup on home turf.
Mathematically it is still possible for Morocco or Guinea to secure the two tickets to the quarter-finals, but two wins out of two have left the Black stars [...]
Gyan brothers drop walkout threat
Posted by Samuel Ampah on 4:04 pm at 4:04 pmGhana players Asamoah Gyan and Baffour Gyan threatened to walk out on the Black Stars in the wake of their unconvincing 1-0 win over Namibia.
BBC Sport has learnt the brothers had packed their bags and were ready to leave the team hotel on Saturday but were persuaded to stay by team-mates.
Asamoah, 22, was booed during [...]
Eto’o inches closer to breaking record
Posted by GNA on 9:14 pm at 9:14 pmCameroonians striker Samuel Eto’o Flis on Saturday inched closer to breaking CAF’s most tournament goals record when he scored his 14th goal in the history of the tournament in the Indomitable Lions’ 5-1 convincing win over the ‘Chipolopolo’ of Zambia in their Group ‘C’ at the Baba Yara Sports Stadium in Kumasi.
The FC Barcelona [...]



